The day pillar for Saturday, 5 June 2027

Day pillar	乙卯 (yi mao)
Heavenly stem	乙 (yi)
Earthly branch	卯 (mao)
Day element	Wood 木 (mu)
Polarity	Yin
Solar term	芒种 (mangzhong)
Month pillar	乙巳 (yi si), governed by 立夏 (lixia)

Today's day pillar is 乙卯 (yi mao), a yin Wood day in the sixty-day cycle. Today is also the solar term 芒种 (mangzhong), one of the twenty-four stations of the solar year. The month pillar is 乙巳 (yi si), governed by the term 立夏 (lixia).

芒种 (mangzhong), grain in ear

芒种 is named for the bearded tip of ripening grain, and it opens the month that contains the longest day, around the sixth of June.

芒 is the awn, the bristle on a head of wheat or barley, and 种 is to sow. The name compresses a whole fortnight of work: one crop ready to cut, the next one going in.

It is sectional and starts the 午 (wu) month, the horse month. That is midsummer in the calendar's terms, the month holding the solstice, and its branch is the strongest Fire among the twelve.

Because the month pillar changes here, births in the first days of June belong to a different month pillar from births in late May, whatever the calendar month says.